particular ad so they could tell how effective it was and who shared it and there are a lot enormous number of details only facebook has and keep it private. you know in that is a big part of the company s e thos. they don t like to share advertiser data which makes it a little difficult for all of us to understand the nature and scope of the ads in the election. but mueller will have that information. it s very powerful. jill, i wonder if you could walk us through the different features of a potential criminal conspiracy. ultimately, if bob mueller s looking at something illegal like hacking he wants to see whether americans were involved according to u.s. intel, criminal hacking occurred. it seems that the facebook piece and the money piece if there is one are other ways, that is to say, even if you put the hacking and the pilfered e-mails aside, the money spent on facebook ads or if any money went into other accounts or changed hands would
facebook users, people know what you see. that s the front end. a lot of this goes to the back end, right? data, meta data, any information that might have identifying aspects to it. based on your tech expertise, i mean, deepa, do you think this is the kind of information to give mueller clues he wouldn t be able to get from anyone other than facebook? absolutely. i mean, only facebook has copies of the ads themselves. only they know or who the buyers are and able to match that with the ad copy. they have access to the you know, to the reach of a particular ad so they could tell how effective it was and who shared it and there are a lot enormous number of details only facebook has and keep it private. you know in that is a big part of the company s e thos. they don t like to share advertiser data which makes it a little difficult for all of us